Re:dnms and dissociation

"I have not had any clients with programming issues..."

"Programming" is often viewed as a formal process, e.g., an operator (hypnotist) inducing a trance and saying things like, "You are ..., or do ... when ... occurs."

However, if "programming" is viewed as similar to the conditioning described by Claude Steiner in Scripts People Live (1974), it can be understood as a pattern of how a person is constantly treated that becomes a "program."

Additionally, intentional "programming" is often casual and very disguised and blended into everyday activities. The "programming" may be things such as building up models for the child to imitate, subtle suggestions, directives, labels, nick names, and systematic support (reinforcement) for certain behaviors.

The key to understanding the "programming" is that it serves others to abuse and exploit the child. The process is unconscious and not identified by the perpetrators and is rarely recognized by the person as "programming."

It is often ERRONEOUSLY assumed by people that the patterns/"programming" were appropriate responses to their personalities. Of course, when there is "programming" the person's predictable responses were purposefully shaped.

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Re:dnms and dissociation, by Ancient, 07/05/03

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